IntelliJ IDEA 2017.3 Help

Code Style. Velocity

Use this page to configure formatting options for Velocity files. View the result in the Preview pane on the right.

Tabs and Indents

Item

Description

Use tab character

If this checkbox is selected, tab characters are used:

On pressing the Tab key

For indentation

For code reformatting

When the checkbox is cleared, IntelliJ IDEA uses spaces instead of tabs.

Smart tabs

If this checkbox is selected, the part of indentation defined by the nesting of code blocks, is made of the tabs and (if necessary) spaces, while the part of indentation defined by the alignment is made only of spaces.

If this checkbox is cleared, only tabs are used. This means that a group of spaces that fits the specified tab size is automatically replaced with a tab, which may result in breaking fine alignment.

The Smart Tabs checkbox is available if the Use Tab Character checkbox is selected.

Indent

In this text box, specify the number of spaces (or tabs if the Use Tab Character checkbox is selected) to be inserted for each indent level.

Continuation indent

In this text box, specify the number of spaces (or tabs if the Use Tab Character checkbox is selected) to be inserted between the elements of an array, in expressions, method declarations and method calls.

Keep indents on empty lines

If this checkbox is selected, then IntelliJ IDEA will keep indents on the empty lines as if they contained some code. If this checkbox is not selected, IntelliJ IDEA will delete the tab characters and spaces.

Set from...

Click this link to reveal the list of languages to be used as the base for the current language code style. So doing, only the settings that are applicable to the current language are taken. All the other settings are not affected.

This link appears in the upper-right corner of the language-specific code style page, when applicable.

Click Reset to discard changes and return to the initial set of code style settings.